Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Judith 15
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 202, footnote 7 (Image)
Jerome: Letters and Select Works
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CCEL Footnote 2869 (In-Text, Margin)
14. I will now pass on to Egypt, pausing for a while on the way at Socoh, and at Samson’s well which he clave in the hollow place that was in the jaw.[Judith 15:17-19] Here I will lave my parched lips and refresh myself before visiting Moresheth; in old days famed for the tomb of the prophet Micah, and now for its church. Then skirting the country of the Horites and Gittites, Mareshah, Edom, and Lachish, and traversing the lonely wastes of the desert where the tracks of the traveller are lost in the yielding sand, I will come to the river of Egypt called Sihor, that is “the muddy ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 10, page 81, footnote 2 (Image)
Ambrose: Select Works and Letters
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On the Duties of the Clergy. (HTML)
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Chapter XIII. Judith, after enduring many dangers for virtue's sake, gained very many and great benefits. (HTML)
83. The Persians were terrified at her daring.[Judith 15:1] And so what is admired in the case of those two Pythagoreans deserves also in her case our admiration, for she trembled not at the danger of death, nor even at the danger her modesty was in, which is a matter of greater concern to good women. She feared not the blow of one scoundrel, nor even the weapons of a whole army. She, a woman, stood between the lines of the combatants—right amidst victorious arms—heedless of death. As one looks at her overwhelming danger, one ...